stefansson-wrangel-09-12-016-001

No Ans.

July 11, 1923.

Dear Mr. Stefansson:

I am sending your mail as requested in your cable.
I am enclosing copies of carbons of letters that Mr. Taylor has sent me
so that you may be fully informed, although you already know the main
points by cable.

The $500. check was received from the Canadian Bank
of Commerce, thankfully. Unfortunately, Mr. Taylor did not repay me the
$200. that I loaned Noice, as I had hoped he would. Instead Mr. Anderson
wrote me a letter, saying that when they raised the money for the expedition
that would be one of the first bills paid. As it about cleaned me out to
advance that, I found it necessary to pay myself back from the $500. you
sent and I also paid my salary out of that, as I had a good many personal
bills coming due this month. That leaves only $100. of the money, from
which I have paid some of the more urgent bills and have about $50. left
for emergencies. There are still a lot of bills unpaid, some of them
pretty large. Of course, if I receive the $200. from Mr. Anderson I will
immediately turn that over to your account and use it for some of the
more urgent bills. If you are not going to be back by the first of
August, will you please send me another check, informing me that you are
doing so?

I sent a copy of a letter to Professor Sollas about
ten days ago. The only one I could find was a long one that you wrote
when we were in England in 1920. It was about eleven pages of single
space typewriting, and contained detailed comments on his book "Primitive
Hunters." It had a good deal of information about reindeer and about the
habits of Eskimos, so I suppose that is the one of ethnological interest
that you had in mind.

Harcourt's sent the books to Mr. Brewer. I hope they
arrived safely.

The doctor didn’t take the cast off of Noice's arm
after all but told him to leave it on until he got to Nome. I hope it
will be all right then.

Sincerely,
Olive R. Wilcox